Part of the Roblealto Team were commissioned on 2-28-10. Several were out ill.
Getting Ready for Lift-Off to Costa Rica
March 2, 2010
The class created a long card with their handprints for Roblealto kids.
The Roblealto Team is pumped. Only a few more days before the early morning flight to San Jose, Costa Rica. By 1 a.m. on Saturday, March 6, this short term team will be wearing eye shades and ear plugs in an effort to get a few hours of shuteye. Going to Roblealto this year will be: Team Leaders Mark and Cindy Tilton and Terry and Lisa Chrisman; Kathleen Daniel, Richard Davis, Norm and Harriette Heibel, Lois Huusko, Wanda Miller, Patrick Oliphant, Jill Paris, Jodi Paris, The Thomas Family (Dean and Diane and their children Dylan and Jessica), Jamie Urbanek, and Ron Woods.
The Sunday School class sponsors a child at Roblealto.
The Team was commissioned and prayed over at both Sunday services. Several members of the team were sick and so an extra dose of prayers was offered up for their quick recovery.
Besides this team of people going to the Roblealto Home, there has been a lot of behind-the-scenes volunteer effort going on. For example, the Children’s Sunday School classes collected fun objects and stuffed them into colorful zip bags for the children at the Roblealto home. They also made special greeting cards and a lovely wall card complete with hand prints of every participating Sunday School child. Sunday School teacher Greg Sasser shared Roblealto stories with the class this past week, reading them a letter from the Roblealto child the class is sponsoring.
Two of the class show off the colorful zip bags.
These faithful Sewing Circle women created lovely tote bags and other goodies for the Roblealto women.
Another behind-the-scenes effort comes from the Women’s Sewing Circle who have been hard at work making wonderful tote bags for the house mothers and other Roblealto women. Looking at these creative treasures made so lovingly by these talented WCPC women, one realizes how many different people really contribute to making a short term mission trip like this occur.
Take the recent Crab Feed Fundraiser, for instance. Besides the team setting up, preparing, cooking and cleaning up for the event, there were other people who stepped up to the plate to assist to make the January 24th dinner one of the most successful to date. And then there are all of the generous silent auction and raffle gift donations we received to help fund this trip. Really, it takes a church to make a mission trip like this happen.
The team gets unleashed to chop their hearts out...
Look for daily updates from the team next week as we let you know what it’s like in mission fields of Costa Rica…
We are Jill & Jodi Paris’ family and are all praying for your safe and successful trip. God bless you all!